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I have had no problems at all with mine. Nearly everywhere that I've tried to use it, it has had no trouble locking on to the satellites and getting a position. Much to my surprise, it even works consistently inside a certain church building, where the GPS on my cellphone does not, and where I...

I assume you're using the 18-55mm lens that came with your camera, and that you're taking these pictures indoors? If the lighting in your home is anything comparable to that in mine, you're just not going to get decent pictures therein at 1/500. I just now experimented with my D3200, in S...

Based on some research that my wife and I did a few years ago, it appears that Gütermann is the best thread, with Coats & Clark a fairly close second. Gütermann: Coats & Clark: Some cheap no-name thread: My wife's sewing machine kept jamming, which is what prompted this research...

The focal length is real. The confusion has to do with the size of the frame, be it a frame of stone-aged 35mm film, some other format of film, or the sensor in a digital camera. For a very long time, 35mm was the very most common film format, with a standard frame size roughly 36mm by 24mm...

Looking at these pictures, the most obvious fault to me is the excessively-busy, distracting backgrounds. There's an app for Android-based devices which is excellent for blurring out such backgrounds, and looking at these pictures, it occurred to me that they were the sort that would greatly...

True, but being too thin is also unhealthy. And the fashion industry tends to put forth a concept of “beauty” that is based on being significantly thinner than is healthy; hence a growing problem with young girls afflicted with eating disorders, who think that a normal, healthy weight is “too...

It's funny, I was thinking at some point yesterday, of comparing these pictures of Ms. Szoka to some I have of my wife. My wife, I have to admit, is very much not supermodel material. Yet, she easily achieves a very friendly, pleasant, appealing expression on her face, that makes pictures of...

My first “real” camera, even before my F2—an Argus C3, one of the very first, made in 1939 or 1940. Argus continue to make variants on this model until some time in the late 1960s. It was popular, even when it ought to have been considered long-obsolete. Several times, sales of this camera...

If you had bought an original Nikon D1 back in 1999, how content would you be with it today, only able to shoot 2.7-megapixel images when even the crappiest of modern point&shoot cameras and even cellphone cameras have better resolution than that, with 16- or 24 megapixels being about par for...

First of all, get one of these. Accept no substitutes, get the genuine Giottos product. The “Large” size unit, which has a valve and filter at the back, so that it doesn't suck the dust in the front only to spit it back out at the thing you were trying to clean. Second, study your camera's...

The VR mechanism in that lens must produce some heat, which ends up, in turn, producing some infrared light, which, when other light is low enough, ends up showing up as red on the sensor—an artifact of the lens and camera being used outside the parameters for which they were designed. I...

When I got my D3200, I found that one of the three old non-AI lenses that I had for my F2 would not mount properly on it. The other two mounted and worked just fine, but this one would not rotate all the way to the click/lock position. It took a careful examination of this lens, and a...

Some time ago, I came up with the idea of making a disk to stick on the front of my old ƒ1.4 50mm lens, with a heart-shaped cutout, in order to get the bokeh to take on a heart shape. (The main reason for using this lens was its large maximum aperture. A smaller aperture would mean I'd have...

Here, you're asking what you think is a simple question with a simple answer, but really, it's about the whole of learning how to use your camera. The simple answer that you seek does not exist. It depends very much on what you're shooting, and under what conditions. You need to understand...

I can tell you that the screen on my D3200 is most certainly not Gorilla Glass, nor any kind of glass. Alas, I discovered this by damaging it, in a manner that I wouldn't have been able to damage it if it was glass. Having decided that I needed a screen protector on it, I improvised with one...

Just so you know what this “rocket blower” is that everyone's talking about: The definitive “model organism” of this type of blower is the Giottos Rocket Air Blaster. The “Large” version has a valve/filter at the back, so that when you use it, it doesn't suck dust in the front, and then spit...

Obviously, someone made a silly mistake entering data into the web site, entering the lens' widest ƒ stop in a field that ought to have been the focal length. It does make me wonder about something. In an SLR, there is only so close that the lens can actually be to the focal plane...

Nikon D3200, with the stock 18-55mm ƒ3.5-5.6 “kit lens”. A short time ago, I took this picture of a dandelion seed head. I was rather alarmed to see the way it came out distorted. I was able to fix it in PhotoShop: A few attempts, just now, to reproduce this distortion by taking a...